Pink and dangerous Mosquito zapper revisit
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- Опубликовано: 3 окт 2024
- I've looked at these before, but they seem to evolve with time or maybe come from different manufacturers.
The English translation is gloriously terrible with non-English words thrown into the mix. It appears to have evolved from older fluorescent lamp based versions.
These things are supposed to lure flying bugs to zap them. They claim that it attracts mosquitoes, but it's usually just ordinary sun seeking flies they attract if at all with their low intensity LEDs.
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The grid is referenced to the mains supply and fully accessible with little inquisitive fingers, so this is not safe for kids. With more effort it's accessible to adult fingers too, and holds a charge when unplugged.
Here's a link to one that was made from completely random capacitors, and exploded:-
• Just the capacitor exp...
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When you have mosquitos and kids and want to get rid of one of them.
*all of them
LOL
Kids then it is. Mosquitos at least doesn't drive you crazy in winter.
But you don't care which.
Facts
"Electron go
out mosquito
Small a night
lamp...
Need extinguish
mosquito de place...
House de enviroment in,
single plane...
Adornment,
hypnotic quiet
se ruo light...
Minute, or job,
study shi ba mie
mosquito...
Free in dark place...
Please not use
hand touch..."
Unknown poet, 2020.
Erm yeah...
Mosquito flappy wings into pink house and meet angry pixies.
@@robinbrowne5419 Spiced up angry pixies to be precise.😂
Ok Stanley unwin.
@Samson Themighty
Ha ha ⚡ zap.
You had me at "Pink and Dangerous."
Dangerous is good, but pink and dangerous is better.
Pink is always Dangerous
Everyone who encountered it was shocked.
"They seem to be dead". Pokes with fingers to be sure.
Gotta discharge the caps to keep from getting shocked by touching them. Discharges. Touches to see if shock happens anyways. I love it.
I prefer to get the surprises when I'm expecting them.
@@bigclivedotcom but doesn't expecting something take away the surprise part?
Sometimes you gotta poke it.
Takes the fun out of it if you don't.
@@hdezn26 The real fun is when you lick it.
He's speaking the language of gods
Pink plastic Chinese electro-Gods.
I was almost sure he was going to summon cthulhu before the end.
The only true god
@@gasdive - If this is a product of Cthulhu, I know why we don't see any sign of him. He hid in shame !
As a person who speaks Chinese- they very likely didn't use any translation software, I'm impressed!
Seeing the manual paints a vivid picture of the manufacturer-
the random 'de'(s) in the instructions indicate a possessive- they correspond to the chinese character '的'. It appears the translator did not learn how to use the apostrophe+s to indicate possessives.
That also partially explains the name. electron=电子, go out =去, mosquito=蚊. I have no idea why the name says 'small a night lamp' instead of 'small light lamp', but my guess would be that they plugged in the characters/phrases in individually thus having 夜 which means 'night' come out as 'a night' because english. The theory also accommodates the 'de' issue, as just inputting 的 would give a translation software a hard time indeed. That said, both Google and Baidu translate it as 'of', which makes sense. Sort of. I would therefore also conjecture what they looked it up in a bilingual dictionary or textbook and found nothing corresponding to 的 and just gave up, instead opting to put the pinyin instead.
That said, English is a mandatory part of the standard public education curriculum as a foreign language section, and is part of the GaoKao (High-exam, short for Normal Higher Education Standardized Test, which is the one criterion for chinese college admissions), so I am genuinely lost as to why there is absolutely no grammar to speak of. The only conclusion I can come up with is that the translator therefore likely failed to even graduate high school and most certainly failed to get into college.
This paints a picture of a stubborn (or frugal?, but then they would have used a free tool like baidu, so...idk) person who tried too hard, but still not enough.
Anyways, I had fun imagining this stuff.
As a note, the correct translation of 电子去蚊小夜灯 (which is what I guess the actual chinese name of the thing is) should be "electronic mosquito removal night lamp", or according to google translate (and coincidentally, also baidu translate- the two give the same results), "Electronic night light".
I refuse to reverse-engineer the entire Chinese manual, but if you're interested, consider searching for listings for 电子驱蚊小夜灯 or something.
For the ignorant- I keep referencing baidu because google is blocked in China and baidu is their primary search engine. mostly. Chinese internet is complicated.
'de' means 'of' in French, so they may have been using notes written by someone _else_ who also did translation. I'm also seeing what looks suspiciously like Portuguese. It might even have been someone working with the English translation from something vaguely similar, and they had to adapt it to this device. Maybe a babycutor manual.
My understanding is that back in the 80s, the government produced millions of dirt-cheap electronic Chinese-English dictionaries, basically the size of a large calculator - you would enter a Mandarin word on a Simplified Chinese keyboard, and it would display an English equivalent. And these were used for several decades by minimally-educated workers to translate product manuals and packaging for English markets. Because the companies making these products are making them as cheaply as possible and that means only hiring the lowest-paid and least-educated workers.
And yes, much better translation methods are now freely available, but they've probably been using the same text for this product fifteen or twenty years and can't be bothered to re-translate it, because again that would take time and money. In the full version of the previous video with the exploding capacitor, it was literally exactly the same package (without the plastic protector for the plug), with exactly the same text.
"I refuse to reverse engineer the entire Chinese manual."
It should be easier than it looks
Here's an actual, genuine question: are these products sold in China as well, or are they only made for export? Would it be possible to find the version with the Chinese manual and compare them?
I mean, I have a little humidifier with similar "English" instructions. It also had Chinese instructions on the reverse side. I tried reading the "English" ones, couldn't really figure out what exactly they meant, so I got out my phone and used Google Lens on the Chinese side... Out came excellent English. An actual (free) translator *literally* did a much better job of it than they had...
You read the name of the product like it was just another sentence. Meanwhile I'm backing tf up to determine if I just had a stroke 😂
It's the best packaging ever.
@@bigclivedotcom I think you should do a top 10 chinese packaging video.
@@bigclivedotcom Yeah, this is even better than "5-Spices Donkey Meat"
Worth the purchase just for the packaging comedy!!
It absolutely is.
When i am sad i watch this video, makes me giggle every time :D
Gotta love the Chinklish.
I bet they make a miniature version to go in a Christmas cracker as well.
Electron go brrr mosquitoes
"It was smouldering seductively" , before it exploded.
How can we forget lol
Almost as good as the doll Clive showed a while back...
this feels like a stroke in a person trying to communicate while drunk
SIR, SIR, ARE YOU OK?! "Yes, i'm just reading how to use my Electron go out mosquito small a night lamp" SOMEONE CALL RESCUE NOW, he's having a stroke!!
Honestly, put me in mind of the old Fast Show Channel 9 Neus sketches.
Boutros Boutros-Ghali
Yeah... Welcome to the famously bad Chinese usage of the English language, jokingly called "Chinglish"! 😶
Has anyone been far even as decided want to do look more like?
I think we should all be grateful when we get instructions like these, its an instant indicator not to use and return
I prefer to think of it as a reason to buy it. Just a few dollars for something with frameable instructions and a resplendent pink plastic housing with almost a thousand volts within easy reach.
9:47 On the plus side, the thing will smell like "humans" after the first cleaning
Lol!
That sounds more like a cypher than instructions.
"Electron go out mosquito Small a night lamp" - Love how you read out the chinglish with the straightest of faces.
I really needed that. Thanks Clive!
You needed an Electron go out mosquito Small a night lamp?
Heyyyy it's Fran from the Fran lab. Two of my favorite youtubers in one spot that's awesome.
@@n111254789 🤣
Fran you have problems...
No she doesn't!
I could listen to you reading most things all day. But this one made my head hurt ¦¬}
To be fair, their English is better than my Chinese!
It absolutely is. That's how my Chinese would actually sound to them.
Yeah but they have a financial incentive to learn English, which no one is paying you to learn Chinese.
Antonio Stella Bottom Tile's favourite bug zapper.
And the instructions were written by Ji Plug Pu Melon Nai.
As well as Nicola Amati (Nicolas Marty)
😆
Bahahahahahahaha
Everything is always fine
admit it Clive... this is a custom made zapper you ordered with pink cover and entertaining instructions :D
I wish I was an animator... because I think it'd be hilarious to try animating instructions like this.... maybe live action?
How is this comment 2 weeks older than the vid?
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That is quite possibly the most fantastic Chinglish I've ever heard.
Well, I'm of two minds on this new iterations. The "improved" Chinglish instructions are certainly more entertaining, but all three capacitors were the same boring size and shape. The different-colored and sized and shaped ones in the unit that exploded were more festive.
They just don't even bother with presentation. Dissapointing.
"The "improved" Chinglish instructions" - no improvement - it was literally the same text in the older video. Though Clive only read a portion of it then.
Those instructions sound like the shipping forecast.
"Sole Fastnet Irish Sea, southwest backing south six to seven, rain later, moderate becoming poor with some icing."
Yes, I see what you mean.
I almost understood nearly every word. It sounded like it was written by Stanley Unwin.
"Now the fly recalled with these wordage
"Not only will I transportnum there, but I will sing it a deep joy of a songload in your eardroves, that I will Do."""
That text reads and has the exact same effect as Vogon poetry.
For context:
ruclips.net/video/Ih-3vK2qLls/видео.html
On an entirely different note...
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I'm laughing so hard, I'm crying and farting uncontrollably, at the same time, listening to you read those "instructions"...! 🤣
Worried that I might have to sit next to you at a comedy gig. 😉
Last weekend I was ill. Farting would be like playing Russian roulette :(
You did it right: crying and farting uncontrollably was indeed part of the instructions !
New Covid strain? Better get tested to be on the safe side.
I've had one of these in my garage for more than a year; the purpose is to kill flying things that zoom in at night when I open the garage door. Once the door is closed for the night, it is the only light source, and I'm happy to report it works like a hot damn! I have to clean the grid about once every two weeks.
The finest example of Chinglish I've ever seen. That was beautiful.
The way you draw the voltage multiplier is really cool, the capacitive multiplier finally made sense to me.
My sister bought one of these at an actual physical shop (in Piraeus, near Athens) and sent me those instructions a couple of months ago. But I still lost it halfway through and had to go and lie down. Sent her your video and it happily turned out her survival instinct had already cut in and she had thrown it away.
Kudos, Clive, for reading the instructions without bursting into laughter and never recover for the rest of the video.
That is indeed incredible! I still have tears in my eyes.
Wonder how many takes, it took, to get this far, without laughing, in this video...
0:30 Let me herp you out. I speak fruent Chinglish!
A) Indoor use only
B) Do not cover. Effective range 16m2 (indoors).
C) Low power consumption: Uses less power than a lightbulb. Quiet operation, ideal for use in the bedroom. Run for 10 to 20 minutes before going to bed to guarantee a restful night's sleep, or to work or study undisturbed.
D) Suitable for 24/7 continuous operation, but for maximum longevity, switch off when not in use, for example by connecting the device to your light switch.
E) For optimal performance, clean regularly. First disconnect power, then open cover and clean with a soft brush.
WARNING: Do not touch while power indicator is on.
This is probably the most exquisite chenglish i heard in quite a while ... marvelous
I have one of these for 120v. It works great. Clearly, you need to take safety precautions. Thanks for taking it apart and showing a schematic.
Yours might have more capacitors and diodes to bump the voltage up higher. I wonder if the one that went bang was intended for 120V but labelled 220V.
@@bigclivedotcom I did not take mine apart. I agree it likely has somewhat different circuitry. Perhaps, they did mislabel the one that went bang. Thanks for your videos.
I've used similar ones for years and they do work surprisingly well if put in a good spot. That light isn't the best at attracting insects unless you place it in a completely dark room. Now I personally was NOT using it for mosquitos. Every few years we have a thrips problem, small little gnats that love fungus(or just fruit) depending on the type. They usually come from the store and once you have them they are really hard to get rid of. During good day over 30+ could be zapped by this device. They are completely harmless but they can be so annoying as they love to fly(if you can call that flying, they're like flying drunk) often into your face or your monitor while working. I don't even want to think how many there would be without traps like this.
At times bigger things can fly into it like harmless moths and they make a very loud noise, scary loud zap sound.
I just love Clive's CAD...........simple and concise.
I understod most of that instruction. I have to stop order stuff from Aliexpress!
"Cut Need extinguish mosquito de place"
Indeed!!
Amazing product. The cherry on the cake is that it also holds a charge after being unplugged.
It's the "surprise" feature.
@@bigclivedotcom Only surprised me once...
Been using one of these primarily as a night light for several years now. Does seem to do the job but only in the dark otherwise the bugs prefer to headbutt the windows.
Hahaha, I needed that, that is so far the funniest thing I’ve heard in 2021, I wonder the series of translations that lead to the masterpiece that is mosquito zapper instructions, continued success
Engineering Life
Fabrizio
I do ponder how many languages it passed through.
Nobody:
The packaging: *_U T E N S I L S E T_*
The instructions sound like someone shook a loose dictionary over paper and the words that fell out were what they used. Thanks Clive.
when the packaging is the most safe part.
2:02 Amusement de throne on am not extinguish cellar.
Translation: I about fell out of my chair laughing.
The “small a night lamp” just breaks me
Clive, you reading those instructions is the funniest thing I've heard in a looong time. Had to pause the video to save my tea. And my curtains.
The way you read the instructions is strangely poetic. It would be quite soothing if I wasn't laughing uncontrollably...
Mosquito can have small a night lamp, as a treat
I used to be a line foreman at sharp electronics in Wrexham in the early 90s
The instructions on the zapper is written in the same broken English that all the technical instructions for the CD and video players we used to make. They were an absolute nightmare to make sense of.
Really like the fusing that yellow wire looks like its good for about 20 amps. Okay hear on a shaver adaptor with fuse but overseas on a two pin wall socket mmmmm lovely. Thanks for the strip down, I will not be rushing to get on.
Its about time they include clear and concise instructions with these devices.
One of the very best bits of Chinglish mixed with Chinench :-)
There's definitely another language mixed in, but I'm not sure which one.
@@bigclivedotcom - I think two. French and Portuguese.
My brains got scrambled trying to read your thumbnail.
Those instructions apply to all walks of life, Words to live by.
I have a previous version of this one, aqua coloured, and with the old, higher-component count PCB and conventional non-SMT blue LEDs. The circuitry on the old PCB was also voltage-doubling, for extra sparkiness and crispiness. Compared to yours, it's practically the luxury version. Ah, they don't make them like they used to, do they?
Mosquito extinguisher. Effective extinguish strength 16 sq.m. Sadly, fire extinguisher is not included, as it may be needed. However the name and instructions are brilliant 😂
Your photography and videography are much improved Clive.
it really is an honor tho to know what most of them scars on that workbench are from ..ive been with you since the ole firwork barbie bigclive ...but i cant deny youhad me rollin out of my seat with that intro .... i laughed harder than i probly should have.
"The rest shall keep as they are. To a hennery, go!" --William Shake-n-Bakespeare
Call an ambulance! Big Clive is having a stroke!
"Shitty Pink Mozzie Zapper From China" (Extended Don't-Poke-It Remix)
(side note: loving the accumulation of smoke stains, arc burns, and general wear and tear on Clive's Bench of Discovery.
Looks a lot different to when I first found the channel)
In the US we've got a bigger version of that that gets used a lot in campgrounds, mounted on street lights. Typically the frame is about 1 ft by 2 ft. I there's blue ultraviolet fluorescent lights in it (4-6 tubes IIRC). The grids are made from about 1/16" wire spot welded to a pair of rails. Typically there's two grids. The entire unit is quite substantial.
I've walked past them when they were just coated in dead mosquitoes. The bars were coated to the point where they're almost bridging. I have seen the mosquitoes on the grids catch on fire and burn, so that is a possibility.
I bought one of these. Whatever you do don't deliberately touch the electrodes after unplugging to see what will happen.
On the other hand if you expect a brief but nasty shock you might merely get what you signed up for.
Didn't attract many mosquitoes as it had blue LEDs rather than UV ones.
I lost it at the 'for example' LOL! Soo sweet of them to include an actual real-life practice, with it the instruction makes perfect sense.
Also, I lost it second time at 'study shi ba mie mosquito' LMAO
I can't help but think that the "instructions" should have been read with a Jamaican accent... :P
Evra-tings betta wit da Jamaica accent mon
My friend said. “I is a yardie, mon. Ire.”
I'm watching live while the 2nd Civil War begins...
Clive posts a new video...
I hold all my live feeds...
FUCK YEAH - BIG CLIVE VIDEO!
Much better than politics.
I had a good laugh at the "That's spicy!" comment.
/as you were reading the instructions, I was laughing out loud! Chinglish is so funny?
"It does hold a charge"
They scrimped on a discharge resistor? Enough said.
Yeah. But you can remove the cover easily for cleaning at the same time there's no discharging built in.....
I have many of those around the house. They work for like gnats. Gnats are bad in Oklahoma around the summer and fall. There are no children around. We have cats, but these things are kept high off the floor. They work better than sucker baskets. Results aren't spectacular or anything, but they help.
That name cracks me up so much "electron go out mosquito small a night lamp"
Over the recent months I have had to find some additional entertainment. I was quite pleased to come across your channel and it’s no nonsense analysis of some downright awful products. Could I point out to you a remarkable claim of a new Dyson hyperdimium motor what ever that is that produces 79,000 G. Is this a true statement! I was wondering if you could give this some of your no nonsense analysis! Thanks!
Those instructions are giving me serious flashbacks to Ashens' "Wonderful sound, strange shape" violin. All that's missing is Ji Plug Pu Melon Ni.
Fun fact, mosquitoes smell the co2 in your breath, that's how they find you in the dark
Mosquito-catching gadgets sometimes have a small tank of propane and burn or catalytically oxidize a little at a time to create a trickle of carbon dioxide.
I went to school with a guy who spoke like the product description, so to me that's pretty understandable.
0:12 Well they did better translating that, than RUclips's Closed Captioning Experiment they did on YT videos about two years ago...
So you purchased this device in Winter Time huh ? I can't wait to see those mosquitos zooming in and drawn to the light of this miracle magic killer plaguing mankind in Winter Time ! Please do more on this device .
I love the broken English
Brilliant enjoyed those instructions. As clear as the current lockdown!!
You are far braver than me going anywhere near those damn things. In reality I really don't like working on anything over 50V and outright refuse to work on anything above 415 3 phase.
The best part is the rather elaborate "Chinglish" instructions fail to mention discharging before cleaning..... SUPPLIES! :D
UV definitely attracts insects but it is questionable how much UV those small LEDs could really put out and how far it might work to attract things.
I do have about 3-4 of these in the house to control fruit flies and the sort in the kitchen. We thankfully don't have kids or pets... They do however help cut back on flies and other bugs in our kitchen, so it does work. We have the US models, which would be running on 110v (115v average in my house).
We had one of the first bug zappers back in the 70's. 5000v. You could light cigarettes with it. A friend got knocked off the patio and down some stairs trying to stick a bug in it by hand.
If someone sat in a corner mumbling that description to themselves they would be locked away in a padded cell. lol
I would definitely buy one just to show the instructions to some friends.
Reminds me of a white van projector mount I have in the house with "Projector mourns to pack" printed on the box.
Those instructions are what it feels like to zone out during a lecture
9:44 Mosquitos if i recall correctly navigate by detecting temperature, CO2 exhaust and some other chemicals, so not sure either how effective this thing would be.
It won't be effective against mosquitos, it's just a miniature version of the standard bug zapper that's used in many restaurants and take-aways for killing flies.
Mosquito traps used by the National Park Service use dry ice, which sublimes into CO2, so I'd say the main attractor is CO2.
@@ian-c.01 mmmmmmm, bug exploders over my sandwich bar.
I had to pause the video 3 times from laughing during the Chingrish instruction reading!
Good ol google translator giving confidence in all
"decrease fluorescent tube de switch's time, prolong fluorescent tube de service life" - can't argue with that.
please no hand touch!
As mentioned before, the 220nF capacitor in the LED power supply should withstand at least twice the peak voltage of the mains supply voltage. Consider the moment when the capacitor is charged at its max voltage, and you try to unplug the power. During this interval, the power plug is sliding at its contacts at the socket. Consider a chance of 10ms interruption (for 50Hz) before next contact, the supply voltage could change from max positive peak, to max negative peak. And the capacitor will see twice the mains supply voltage. The same will occur when the contacts of a power switch are bouncing. Btw, please note that a CBB21/CBB22 capacitor is rated for DC voltage.
I think this is the 3rd time this has been featured on the channel. Fantastic!
C. This go out as save energy ... shi ba mie ... all is very effective usage. :)
Hearing you read that made my night Clive! Hahaha! Thanks for that kind sir!
You should post this on Engrish.com. So much hilarious Chinglish there!
Those instructions shi ba mie perfectly clear
The strange thing is that Google translate detects shi ba mie as Chinese for "is to put out"
Shi ba mie all night lol.
(thats what I thought at least ...)
Poppy and cracky. Learning new vocabulary!
Poppy and Cracky should be a couple of Statler and Waldorf style puppets commenting on your videos... perhaps via a Techmoan collab? ;)